How to Customize User Profile URLs in WordPress

WordPress User Profile URLs Slugs

Are you looking to customize your User Profile URLs, ProfileGrid has come up with an amazing extension for you, i.e. User Profile Custom Slugs. The extension will help you define how your user profile URLs will appear to site visitors and search engines. Let’s discuss the overview, importance, and step-by-step process of customizing your profile URLs using the extension.  

If you are creating a profile page on your WordPress website, you should know the importance of profile URLs. Profile URLs, also known as permalink or permanent links, play an important role in search engine optimization. A slight change in your profile URL leads to the failure or success of that page. Moreover, these profile URLs help you earn more traffic. 

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Why Create Custom User Profile URLs

Profile URLs are fundamental to SEO. Customizing the pattern of these URLs is crucial for optimizing your website on search engines. Search engines first look at a page’s URL before reading its content, so having a unique URL gives you a strong advantage. The user profiles created with the ProfileGrid plugin can enhance your site’s online presence in multiple ways. When visitors reach a profile page directly through a customized URL, it further boosts the page’s ranking.

Step-by-Step Guide to Customize Profile URLs

Activate the Custom Profile Slugs Extension from the Extensions page of ProfileGrid and go ahead. 

After activating the extension, you’ll find it under the ‘General’ category on the ‘Global Settings’ page. Clicking on the ‘User Profile Custom Slugs’ option will take you to the ‘Custom Profile Slugs’ page, where you can choose from three different patterns to create custom user profile URLs. These are:

• User ID ( /?uid=1 ) 
• User Name ( /?uid=username )
• Random Number ( /?uid=TWNDNFoxQit0M3FicG9ad3ROQzZEZz09 )

 

In the image above, we’ve selected the ‘Username’ option for the Profile URL to create custom user profile URLs. Now, let’s visit the user profile page on the front-end to see how the customized URL looks.

 

Here is the profile of ‘Erik Betts’. After selecting ‘Username’ as the profile URL option, the profile page URL will appear as:

This is the profile slug for Erik Brett’s profile. As you can see, ‘Erik,’ which is his username, now appears in the URL of his profile

Similarly, when you select the user ID pattern, the user’s ID will be displayed in the profile slug. Please refer to the image below for a clear example

The URL above now displays Erik’s user ID instead of his name. This is the unique ID associated with his profile in WordPress.

Keep in mind that this profile slug customization applies globally. Once you’ve set the slug settings, all user profiles on your WordPress website will follow the same URL pattern configured in ProfileGrid’s settings. This also ensures consistency across all profile links on your site

Summary

In this article, we’ve explored how the ProfileGrid plugin allows you to customize user profile URLs on your WordPress site using the Custom Profile Slugs extension. This powerful tool not only helps you create unique and SEO-friendly URLs but also adds consistency across your website. If you’re looking to personalize your profile URLs, simply install and activate the User Profile Custom Slugs Extension, follow the steps outlined in this guide, and you’re all set. Give it a try and enhance your site’s user experience and search engine visibility.